2 Quick Questions about URLs within UR

[Metta]

(1) When using the Firefox browser plugin, is there a way to change the default setting from "Copy" to "Link"?

(2) Within UR is there a way to tell if a URL is a copy or a link simply by looking at:
-- the display of the URL in the tree or
-- the attributes of the URL?

[kinook]

(1) What do you mean by the "default" setting? The extension provides two buttons/menu items in Firefox, one for link and one for copy (AFAIK neither one is a default). For generic import operations such as the global import hotkey, drag/drop, and copy/paste, the default is actually link, but can be made copy by checking Tools | Options | Import | Store contents when importing files and Outlook items.

(2) The indicators for a stored item are:
a) Item title in Item Details pane suffixed with [Stored]
b) Store Contents button on Item Toolbar/Menu depressed
c) Existence of Document Size attribute (if shown at Tools | Options | Attributes)

[Metta]

Originally Posted by kinook

(1) What do you mean by the "default" setting? The extension provides two buttons/menu items in Firefox, one for link and one for copy (AFAIK neither one is a default).

My apologies for the confusion -- and my thanks for your clarification. I had simply overlooked the Link option in FireFox. Instead, I had been mistakenly using the Copy command, which always required that I manually reset it to "link" when I didn't want to copy the entire page into UR.

Originally Posted by kinook

For generic import operations such as the global import hotkey, drag/drop, and copy/paste, the default is actually link, but can be made copy by checking Tools | Options | Import | Store contents when importing files and Outlook items.

(2) The indicators for a stored item are:
a) Item title in Item Details pane suffixed with [Stored]
b) Store Contents button on Item Toolbar/Menu depressed
c) Existence of Document Size attribute (if shown at Tools | Options | Attributes)

Thanks for providing this additional clarification. The more I use UR, the more I like it -- and so far I have not found any PIM with as many of the features I've been looking for.

Also, I found a number of User Hints and Tips in the forum this afternoon that have been very helpful, and I was wondering: do you ever incorporate any of these tips in the Help files? I'm sure new users would love to have access to these recommendations on their desktops!

[kinook]

I guess we could link to the Tips forum on the Help menu.

[Metta]

Sounds like a great idea!

I know I've appreciated the hints and tips immensely, and I suspect others would, too. :-)

[Metta]

One more quick question.....

Is there a way to set the global import hot key to import the location (URL or file location) for the text being imported?

Or, is the import always a 2-step process:
(1) Import the text and then....
(2) Add the location info either:
` manually in the case of importing from a desktop file or
` using the Firefox plugin in the case of a Firefox import.

Thanks,
Metta